Problem representation [1] | |
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• What is the ‘problem’ represented to be? o How does the policy represent the problem under investigation? o How has this representation come about? o ‘The problem’ can be inferred from the proposed ‘solution’. | |
• Assumptions underpinning the representation of the problem o What are the presuppositions/ assumptions that underlie the representation and its concepts and categories? • Effects of problem representation o What effects are produced by this representation of the ‘problem’? | |
• What is left unproblematic and how might the policy response differ o What is left unproblematic in this problem representation? Where are the silences? o Can the ‘problem’ be conceptualized differently? o What is left out of the problem representation? |